... are there? Episode 2,

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Math ... are there? Episode 2, Adrian Paenza
Publisher: Siglo XXI Ediciones October 2006 Spanish ISBN: 9871220642 235 Pages 1.2 MB Adrian Paenza


Description
Published in Argentina in September 2005, the first math ... Are you there? has sold over 120,000 copies in 11 editions and is located more than 50 weeks between the first nonfiction best sellers, which is a publishing phenomenon unprecedented in recent decades. The work has been published in Spain and soon to be published in Brazil and Mexico.
If the first book by journalist and mathematician Adrian Paenza represented the continuation of his work as a popularizer of science, Episode 2 consolidates it in his passion for showing how to think mathematically from which we estimate distances to cross the street or calculate the probability that a favorite team win the championship until he played a Sudoku.
With enthusiasm and dedication, and a warm and direct style, the author tells here every reader a series of stories about numbers, math puzzles and trivia that will see the world differently and discover the pleasure of having "head an unsolved problem. "
Episode 2 explores the unexpected aspects of the matter is most feared as odds or mathematical insights, with questions such as how many trucks full of coins needed to make a pile the size of a 100 story building? or in what order should play Russian roulette?, and dives well in game theory as a contribution to the education of the creative mind, the more subjects.


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